Backup name

[Angus MacGyver]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:59 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 09/03/2010 11:49 AM, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> >>      I discovered that the thing is a Directory. To test this I tried
> >> from the /media/ directory:
> >>
> >>      $ /media/ mkdir disk-1
> >>      
> > If you just made a directory in /media/ and don't have the hard drive
> > mounted to that directory, then you're sorta umm, not really backing
> > up to the external hard drive.
> > Did you make sure that you're mounting your drive to /media/disk-1/ ?
> > you could add a fstab line for the drive. Then, when you plug it into
> > your computer, you could have it automount correctly.
> > Changing the label works just as well.
> >
> >    
> >> This worked fine and I am getting ready to do another backup to
> >> /media/disk-1/backup/.
> >>
> >> I expect it will work fine. Then I will delete all at the bad directory
> >> including the bad directory!
> >>      
> >   Good luck.
> >
> > ~SpaceGhost
> >
> >    
>              I guess I was not simple enough for you. With the external 
> HD turned on, it is plugged into a USB port and the external HD is shown 
> at /media/.  I am at /media/ with a call that looks like:
> 
>      $ sudo rm -rf ebf42.....
> 
> it is deleting the bad directory.
> 
> 
> The deleting takes quite a time.
> 
> 
> 73 Karl


EPIC FAIL.

Try reading this article..

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive